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A long awaited, thorough revision of the classic guide to boiler operation and maintenance.Quickly and easily solve any boiler problem-and prepare for your licensing exams-using the hands-on information contained in this fully updated, industry standard resource. The book covers all types of boilers and systems and clearly explains all processes, points out potential problems, and lays out the testing and troubleshooting procedures needed to maintain good performance.Boiler Operator's Guide, Fifth Edition has been thoroughly overhauled to align with all current technologies and regulations, including the latest version of the ASME BPV code. You will get practice questions and answers to reinforce important points and study for the Boiler Operator's or Stationary Engineer exam. The book serves as a go-to source for any critical information needed on boilers and their operation..Completely updated to align with all applicable codes and standards.Provides data, calculations, specifications and techniques across all boiler systems.Thoroughly revised by a PE and renowned boiler and pressure vessel expert

All the Math Your 4th Grader Needs to SucceedThis book will help your elementary school student develop the math skills needed to succeed in the classroom and on standardized tests. The user-friendly, full-color pages are filled to the brim with engaging activities for maximum educational value. The book includes easy-to-follow instructions, helpful examples, and tons of practice problems to help students master each concept, sharpen their problem-solving skills, and build confidence.Features include:. A guide that outlines national standards for Grade 4. Concise lessons combined with lot of practice that promote better scores-in class and on achievement tests. A pretest to help identify areas where students need more work. End-of-chapter tests to measure students' progress. A helpful glossary of key terms used in the book. More than 1,000 math problems with answersTopics covered:. Adding and subtracting. Multiplying and dividing. 2-, 3-, and 4-digit numbers. Rounding and estimating. Prime numbers, factors, and multiples. Operations with fractions and mixed numbers. Decimals. Customary and metric units of measure. Lines, angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, and circles. Perimeter and area. Data line plots. Word problems. Multistep problems and variables

All the Math Your 3rd Grader Needs to SucceedThis book will help your elementary school student develop the math skills needed to succeed in the classroom and on standardized tests. The user-friendly, full-color pages are filled to the brim with engaging activities for maximum educational value. The book includes easy-to-follow instructions, helpful examples, and tons of practice problems to help students master each concept, sharpen their problem-solving skills, and build confidence.Features include:. A guide that outlines national standards for Grade 3. Concise lessons combined with lot of practice that promote better scores-in class and on achievement tests. A pretest to help identify areas where students need more work. End-of-chapter tests to measure students' progress. A helpful glossary of key terms used in the book. More than 1,000 math problems with answersTopics covered:. Addition and subtraction. Multiplication and division. Place values. Rounding and estimating. Fractions. Measuring length, mass, volume, and time. Lines, angles, and polygons. Charts and graphs. Perimeter and area. Word problems

A proven prescription for effective communication that will empower health professionals to deliver the highest quality care¿from the Academy of Communication in Healthcare Research shows that nothing impacts patient experiences more than the quality of communication. While beneficial, the latest in cutting-edge technology and techniques aren't enough to ensure the best possible care for patients. The key to better healthcare outcomes is communication. Over the past four decades, the Academy of Communication in Healthcare has worked tirelessly with health systems, teaching communication skills that put relationships-between patients and providers, as well as among providers-at the center of care. Now, for the first time, ACH's proven and effective methodology is detailed in this invaluable step-by-step guide. You'll learn communication skills that will enable you to:* Provide more accurate diagnoses and effective treatments-and improve patient outcomes* Boost patient adherence and lower hospital readmission rates * Make fewer errors and reduce malpractice risks * Increase patient satisfaction and build teamwork among providers* Further develop your communication skill set-and help others do the sameIn this practical-and potentially life-saving-volume, you'll discover special sections on teamwork, coaching, shared decision-making, feedback, conflict engagement, diversity, and communicating through hierarchy. The book also provides institutional initiatives to help you implement change in your organization and outlines a field-tested blueprint for healthier communication across the entire industry.To create effective communication and meaningful connections in healthcare, trust ACH. Communication is literally its middle name.

The fast, fun, and easy way for nurses to get up to speed on fluids and electrolytesFluids and Electrolytes Demystified, Second Edition is a detailed, easy-to-understand overview of the essential concepts involved in fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance and imbalance. This reader-friendly book emphasizes the most critical information by discussing the underlying mechanisms involved in maintaining fluid, electrolyte, and acid-base balance by discussing the factors that fail and result in an imbalance. To promote understanding, there is coverage of the developmental changes and major conditions that result in fluid, electrolyte, or acid-base imbalances. The nursing assessments, interventions, and evaluations are reviewed to provide a complete picture of the patient's needs and nursing care situation.Useful charts, Key Terms, Learning Objectives, Speed Bumps and brief Overviews are included to help you remember must-know concepts, and end of chapter NCLEX®-style quizzes test your knowledge - for the most effective learning experience possible.Everything you need to gain a working knowledge of:.Key Elements Underlying Fluid and Electrolyte Balance.Key Elements Underlying Acid-Base Balance.General Nursing Assessments in Diagnostic Tests Related to Fluid, Electrolyte, and Acid-Base Balance.Fluid Volume Imbalance.Sodium Imbalances.Potassium Imbalances.Calcium Imbalance.Magnesium Imbalances.Phosphorus Imbalances.Acid-Base ImbalancesSimple enough for a beginner, but, challenging enough for advanced students, Fluids and Electrolytes Demystified is your best choice for gaining a solid grasp of one of the most challenging topics nurses need to master.

Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product.Fiendishly Clever Sensor Projects for Your Arduino and Raspberry PiLearn to quickly build your own electronic gadgets that monitor, measure, and react to the real world-with no prior experience required! This easy-to-follow guide covers the programming and electronics essentials needed to build fun and educational sensor-based projects with both Arduino and Raspberry Pi. Arduino and Raspberry Pi Sensor Projects for the Evil Genius features step-by-step DIY projects that use inexpensive, readily available parts. You will discover how to use touch, temperature, moisture, light, sound, and motion sensors-even sensors that detect the presence of a human!Start-to-finish Arduino and Raspberry Pi projects include:. "Simon Says" game. Rotary encoder that controls an RGB LED. Reed switch door buzzer alarm . Fire alarm. Sound detector. Light clapper. Glass break alarm . Infrared motion detector. Distance sensor intruder alarm. Collision alarm. TFT color display screen. Door entry alarm with SD card logging. And many more

Take your English Grammar skills to the next level and speak with confidence!To fully understand how to speak English effectively you must move beyond the fundamental principles of grammar and tackle more sophisticated sentence constructions. Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners focuses on intermediate- to advanced-level topics to help you create more complex, meaningful sentences and communicate more naturally.Instead of just applying sets of rules, Practice Makes Perfect: Advanced English Grammar for ESL Learners helps you better understand the nuances of the language and develop your skills and confident as a native speaker by providing easy-to-absorb explanatory materials, examples, and exercises. Inside you will find:.Dozens of exercises in formats suited to your learning style.Example sentences that illustrate and clarify each grammatical point.A detailed answer key for quick, easy progress checks.Diagnostic exercises, new to this second edition, that help identify topics that require special attentionLearn the Ins and Outs of:Non-count nouns . Possessives formed with of . Articles and quantifiers . Deriving adjectives from verb participles . Key rules for verb forms and tenses . Modal auxiliary verbs . Get passives . Restrictive and nonrestrictive adjective clauses .Identifying gerunds and infinitives . The use of noun clauses

The One-Stop Guide to Mastering Spanish Past-Tense VerbsLearning the past-tense can be one of the most frustrating aspects of Spanish grammar, but it is also one of the most important for being understood and understanding what others say. By adding the Spanish past-tense verbs to your range of language skills, you will open up a whole new world of communication.Practice Makes Perfect: Spanish Past-Tense Verbs Up Close has established itself as the most effective resource for intermediate and advanced learners. Its clear explanations cut through what is often presented in an over complicated or incorrect way, while its exercises provide numerous opportunities for practice that will help you understand the nuances of this challenging grammar element. Develop your skills and confidence as a Spanish speaker with:¿ Easy-to-absorb explanatory materials and example sentences¿ Authoritative guidance on how to form the past tenses and when to use them¿ Numerous exercises, expanded in this second edition, to practice what you learn¿ A comprehensive answer key that not only give you the correct solutions to the exercises but explains the why behind them

This laboratory manual presents a curriculum that is organized around an atoms first approach to general chemistry. Our motivation for writing this manual is to (1) tap into the natural curiosity present in all of us and provide engaging experiments that students will find interesting, (2) emphasize topics that students find particularly challenging in the general chemistry lecture course, and (3) create a laboratory environment that encourages students, on occasion, to "solve puzzles" and not just "follow recipes." All too often, students view general chemistry lab as a boring exercise in which an exact set of instructions is followed, leading to an answer that, in many cases, results in a good grade regardless of how much learning has taken place. To these students, the successful lab is the one that takes the least amount of time! Unfortunately, a huge opportunity to get students truly turned on to science is missed. To us, the laboratory represents high-stakes ground for engagement and relatively low stakes for grading, as the laboratory is typically a single-credit course or minor component to the lecture grade. Thus, while the rigor of the experiments in this manual can be tuned to meet the needs of the instructor, our hope is that students will be encouraged to "play" (safely) with chemical concepts and laboratory techniques, with grades simply being a natural consequence of their laboratory actions. To facilitate such a mindset, this manual has been written to provide instructors with a weekly tool that can attract and keep student interest, while providing important connections to the material covered in an atoms first lecture course. Our philosophy: student curiosity leads to engagement, which leads to discovery, which leads to learning.The manual is for a freshman-level general chemistry laboratory course, and serves as an ideal supplement for any atoms first general chemistry textbook (such as Chemistry: Atoms First by Julia Burdge and Jason Overby). It is designed for students at all levels, from those seeing chemistry for the first time to chemistry majors.

The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from some of the most respected magazines, newspapers and journals published today. Annual Editions are updated on a regular basis through a continuous monitoring of over 300 periodical sources. The articles selected are authored by prominent scholars, researchers, and commentators writing for a general audience. Each Annual Editions volume has a number of features designed to make them especially valuable for classroom use; including a brief overview for each unit, as well as Learning Outcomes, Critical Thinking questions, and Internet References to accompany each article. Go to the McGraw-Hill Create® Annual Editions Article Collection at http://www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/annualeditions to browse the entire collection. Select individual Annual Editions articles to enhance your course, or access and select the entire Kromkowski: Annual Editions: Race and Ethnic Relations, 21/e book here http://create.mheducation.com/createonline/index.html#qlink=search%2Ftext%3Disbn:1259922812 for an easy, pre-built teaching resource. Visit http://create.mheducation.com for more information on other McGraw-Hill titles and special collections.

The Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill Create® includes current controversial issues in a debate-style forma designed to stimulate student interest and develop critical thinking skills. This Collection contains a multitude of current and classic issues to enhance and customize your course. You can browse the entire Taking Sides Collection on Create or you can search by topic, author, or keywords. Each Taking Sides issue is thoughtfully framed with Learning Outcomes, an Issue Summary, an Introduction, and an "Exploring the Issue" section featuring Critical Thinking and Reflection, Is There Common Ground?, Additional Resources, and Internet References. Go to the Taking Sides Collection on McGraw-Hill Create® at www.mcgrawhillcreate.com/takingsides and click on "Explore this Collection" to browse the entire Collection. Select individual Taking Sides issues to enhance your course, or access and select the entire Katsh, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Legal Issues, 18/e book here http://create.mheducation.com/createonline/index.html#qlink=search%2Ftext%3Disbn:125988368X for an easy, pre-built teaching resource. Visit http://create.mheducation.com for more information on other McGraw-Hill titles and special collections.

The most practice-oriented guide to diagnosing and managing infectious diseases in childrenPediatric Infectious Diseases: Essentials for Practice, Second Edition is filled with practical, clinically relevant guidance for successful infectious disease management. The care of the patient forms the core of this indispensable resource, which also provides perspectives on epidemiology, pathophysiology, and diagnosis that every pediatrician, pediatric hospitalist, and pediatric nurse practitioner needs to know. The book's high-yield coverage includes detailed, yet precise overviews of specific infections and their etiology, along with proven diagnostic and management strategies that readers can incorporate into their practice right away.FEATURES:.Tips that tell you what you must know--and do--at every stage of care .Diagnostic and treatment algorithms .Signs/Symptoms and Differential Diagnosis boxes ."When to Refer" boxes, which examine all the relevant clinical considerations .Diagnostic Tests--with a realistic emphasis on the right tests to order .Medical Treatment coverage that includes drugs, dosages, and administration in an easy-to-read tabular format .Convenient icons and a templated chapter design .Numerous clinical color photos and didactic diagrams.NEW! Clinical Pearls boxes accompany coverage of each infectious disease.Updated treatment guidelines and protocols from the CDCIf you are in need of an up-to-date, clinically relevant guide to treating infectious diseases in pediatric patients, your search ends here.

Career Directions will prepare you to enter and succeed in today's workplace. Designed to help you create your distinct personal brand and effectively tell YOUR STORY to prospective employers, distinguish yourself in today's highly competitive employment market in ways that lead you to successful interviews to land and maintain your ideal career. More than just a text on job searches and career planning, Career Directions and the Career Handbook are your complete career management reference tools for preparing you to find your first position after graduation or guide you through a career transition. You will find yourself referring back to them at different points in your career to explore new opportunities or affirm the course you are on.This 7th edition of Career Directions continues to focus on new paths to your ideal career that include:.Social media profiles.Online career portfolios.Multiple resume versions.Maximizing the use of keywordsWith over thirty years of experience in career development and human resources, author Donna Yena brings a practitioner's perspective to Career Directions. Her experience as Vice President of Career Development and Alumni Relations at Johnson & Wales University, along with her background as a manager, instructor, and curriculum designer, contribute to the advice and techniques found in Career Directions: New Paths to Your Ideal Career and the Career Handbook.

Introducing the book that bridges the gap between a dermatologic surgery textbook and a dedicated flap and reconstructive guideDermatologic Surgery is a unique resource that offers the benefits of both a single-volume multi-author global dermatologic surgery textbook and a dedicated flap and reconstructive reference. Conveniently organized by flap type as well as regional approach, it offers by far the most comprehensive flap and reconstruction sections of any general dermatologic surgery book. The book's content breakdown attempts to reflect the proportion of time, effort, and training required for a given subject. For example, there are five full chapters (in addition to numerous other sections) dedicated to Mohs surgery. Similarly, a total of 17 richly illustrated chapters, including those devoted to particular flap techniques and regional approaches to reconstruction, address flap and graft closures. Since anatomy is the foundation on which all surgery is built, the anatomy chapter was built on a true ground-up cadaveric study of head and neck anatomy with an eye to clinical relevance. Full-length high-quality videos are an essential adjunct to learning procedural techniques, and this text includes the largest video resource of its kind ever compiled. This coupled with almost 3,000 high-quality clinical photographs and nearly 500 professional medical illustrations, including infographics with surgical pearls for each chapter - many bolstered by beginner tips, expert tips, cautions, patient education points, and even billing tips - make this a true primer for real-world skin surgery practice.